The NBA MGM Resorts Summer League in Las Vegas always gives the team at NBA Entertainment an opportunity to try out new things. This year, those efforts included extended experiments with robo cameras in the stands 15 rows up from the free-throw line, use of a Spydercam for all five days of coverage, and virtual […] More
Last Sunday produced one of the most nail-biting half hours in British sporting history, with both the Wimbledon Men’s final and the Cricket World Cup final going to deciders in order to produce outright winners. With two major events on at the same time, fans turned to streaming the crucial moments of each event so […] More
US-based AJA Video Systems, along with its European partner, Phospor, have jointly renewed their Gold Sponsorship at SVG Europe. AJA Video Systems is a provider of video capture cards, digital recording devices, video routers, frame synchronizers and scalers, digital converters and professional 4K cameras. Last year it celebrated its 25th anniversary. Said Gina Georgallis, EMEAR […] More
FOR-A has once again renewed its Gold Sponsorship of SVG Europe, stating the association’s events enable it to stay up to date with the latest innovations in sports broadcast. Peter Hattan, general manager at FOR-A UK, commented: “FOR-A has renewed our membership with SVG Europe once again as we see great value in being able […] More
The eSports universe is expanding. eSports is no longer the domain of the gamer community but attracts about 400 million fans worldwide. At the big eSports tournaments where League of Legends, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike are played in huge stadiums, players are competing for thousands, sometimes even millions of dollars. eSports viewers are mainly male, […] More
Traditional television coverage of sports has depended upon fast turnaround editing to create short packages of highlights. Producing these packages is labour intensive and depends upon having multiple sophisticated craft editing set-ups available, usually on location. With the move from simple broadcast to multi-platform delivery, the need for highlights clips has escalated. Rights holding broadcasters […] More
Premier League champions Manchester City FC have launched a new paid-for OTT streaming TV app that will show live coverage of friendlies, delayed as-live coverage of certain Premier League matches, and on-demand content. Called Man City for TV, the service is being made available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku and on selected […] More
SVG Europe is excited to announce the speaker line-up for its Sport Production Summit session, Widening the Playing Field – Achieving Greater Diversity in Sports Broadcasting. MAMA Youth Project founder and chief executive, Bob Clarke, Sky Production Services’ director, Inga Ruehl, and HBS’ Broadcast Academy acting head, Ekta Hutton, will tell the audience how they […] More
After the massive changes made to broadcasting services last year at Wimbledon Championships by Wimbledon Broadcast Services (WBS), this year BBC Sport expanded on its coverage, both in quantity and quality. Ron Chakraborty, lead executive, major events at BBC Sport, spoke to SVG Europe at Wimbledon about how BBC Sport’s tests last year with UHD […] More
EBU Members have reported record audience figures and coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, signalling a landmark moment for women’s sport. Europe’s public service broadcasters have brought the excitement, action and goals of this thrilling tournament to millions, free-to-air, both those within Eurovision Sport’s 38 territory contract and those with individual agreements. Initial […] More
